Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
December 5, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
Notes:
– Justin Farrar was back in the co-pilot chair today, and I’m gonna agree with his assessment that this was our best show together–and I’m generally pleased as punch at the results when he shows up with his sack of musical smack. Justin’s contributions today were the smokin’ moog groove in the Fred Wesley and the JBs, the Jamaican jam by Rags and Riches, the flat-out weird Two Prong (we think that’s their name–it’s a VERY cryptic CD) and their insert photo of a hitchhiking hippy carrying a "James Taylor or Bust" sign, Hungarian freaks Galloping Coroners, the killer bass & drums duet who call themselves Eloe Omoe, The Move and their "Brontosaurus," the new old-time Appalachian music of Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers (see his blog Strawberry Flats for a recap of his trip up to Virginia to see these nuts), and Souled American–a band he’s been pushin’ on me for a while, with good reason.
– My contributions included a few inspired choices: Vancouver agit-prop post-punks U-J3RK5 and their "Naum Gabo"; the new Mississippi Records collection of UK Fall cum Young Marble Giants post-punkers Animals and Men (I REALLY love that song "Don’t Misbehave in the New Age"); French (yes, FRENCH–go figure) seered speed-garage-psych band Gunslingers (definitely one of my faves of the year); the sick Albert Ayler/Henry Vestine bagpipes/electric guitar duet from Ayler’s The Last Album (1969), which was not his last album, albeit close; Alfred G. Karnes’ beautiful and modern-sounding (as Justin pointed out) mountain gospel from the classic July 1927 Bristol, TN recordings (where Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family were also discovered); and the 1909 black gospel Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, from a killer collection called Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922. Justin got a great idea for a book to be titled Soft Rock: Whites and the Death of the Record Industry, starring Paul Davis and Leo Sayer. I’m sure he’s gonna get right on that–look for it next year in a bookstore near you.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boscoe | He Keeps You | Boscoe | Asterisk | ||
| Fred Wesley and the J.B.’s | Blow Your Head | Damn Right I Am Somebody | People | ||
| Andy Votel (Tinido Trincando) | Novos Baianos | Brazilika: Nonstop Subtropical Psychedelia | |||
| Rags and Riches | It’s Not Right | 12 | Kingley Sounds | Jamaican | |
| U-J3RK5 | Naum Gabo | VA – Vancouver Complication | Sudden Death | 1979 Vancouver | |
| Animals and Men | Don’t Misbehave in the New Age | Singles & Demos 1979-83 | Mississippi | 1980 UK | |
| Quintron | Dirt Bag Fever | Too Thirsty 4 Love | Goner | * | |
| Two Prong | Who Is Hockamoo? | James Taylor B | |||
| Mark Tucker | Down the Pipeline | In The Sack | De Stijl | * | |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Breath-A-Thon | Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata | Atlantic | 1971 | |
| The Cosmic Jokers | Kinder des Alls 3 | Galactic Supermarket | 1974 Germany | ||
| Galloping Coroners | Get It Out for God’s Sake | A Halal moresre tanitasa | Von Unten | Hungarian | |
| Gunslingers | Into the Garage | No More Invention | World in Sound | French | |
| Eloe Omoe | Illidrium | Marauders | Animal Disguise | ||
| Albert Ayler | Untitled Duet | The Last Album | Impulse! | 1969 with Ayler on bagpipes and Canned Heat’s Henry Vestine on guitar | |
| Andrew McGraw | Pemungkah | Kolaborasi | * | ||
| Hitmen | Death Grip | Hitmen | Australian | ||
| Total Control | Stare Way | 7" | Aarght! | ||
| Milk ‘n’ Cookies | Not Enough Girls in the World | Milk ‘n’ Cookies | 1975 | ||
| The Move | Brontosaurus | Looking On | Capitol | ||
| Ty Segall | The Drag | Ty Segall | Castle Face | * | |
| Alfred G. Karnes | Bound for the Promised Land | VA – Fight On, Your Time Ain’t Long | Mississippi | 1927 Bristol recoding | * |
| Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers | Little Sadie | Black/Jack EP | |||
| Fisk University Jubilee Quartet | Little David, Play on Yo’ Harp/Shout All Over God’s Heaven | VA – Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 | Archeophone | 1909 | |
| Souled American | Soldier’s Joy | Fe | Rough Trade | 1988 | |
| The Howling Hex | O Why, Sports Coat? | Earth Junk | Drag City | * | |
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